{"id":671,"date":"2005-02-24T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T09:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ooops.pl\/makowskiundpepe\/?p=671"},"modified":"2005-02-24T11:47:20","modified_gmt":"2005-02-24T09:47:20","slug":"freedoms-dark-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Freedom&#039;s Dark Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/11.09\/view.html?pg=4\"target=\"_blank\">The iron fist, the invisible hand, and the battle for the soul of open source.<\/a> (\u2026)<br \/>\nLogically &#8211; indeed, free-software geeks are the most logical hippies in the whole wide world &#8211; the revolution is at hand. Why should anybody pay for software? What do you get for your money besides shrink-wrap licenses, potential lawsuits, DRM cuffs around both wrists, and a cloud of viruses? &#8222;Property relations&#8221; are blocking social and technical progress. Secure computing and digital rights management are coercive regimes that would make George Orwell blush. The free market is a tissue of political fiction as brittle as an Eastern European regime. With open source code on tap, the software trade will collapse under its own weight.<br \/>\n(\u2026)<br \/>\nAs the former Soviet Union sadly demonstrates, if you depose the system and don&#8217;t replace it with anything, you unleash not only altruism but a host of dark traits no less human yet far more destructive. When that happens, you may well get things like well, like this remarkable souvenir I bought for about $1 in Bosnia-Herzegovina.<br \/>\n(\u2026)<br \/>\n(via: <a href=\"http:\/\/pajeczaki.blox.pl\/html\/\"target=\"_blank\">paj\u0119czaki<\/a>; ale blox.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iron fist, the invisible hand, and the battle for the soul of open source. (\u2026) Logically &#8211; indeed, free-software geeks are the most logical hippies in the whole wide world &#8211; the revolution is at hand. Why should anybody pay for software? What do you get for your money besides shrink-wrap licenses, potential lawsuits, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[405],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-best-of-this-old-mundp-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooops.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}